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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 7
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Ephraim and Syria wage war against Judah—Christ shall be born of a virgin—Compare <a href="2_ne/17">2 Nephi 17</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 17: 1 (1-25)."><span class='smallcaps'>And</span></a> it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, <i>that</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/7/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 15: 37 (36-38); 2 Kgs. 16: 5 (1-6); Isa. 8: 6; Isa. 9: 11.">Rezin</a> the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/7/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Chr. 28: 5 (1-6).">king</a> of Syria, and <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/7/1d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 15: 27 (27-37).">Pekah</a> the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
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And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/2a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE All northern Israel was called by the name of Ephraim, the leading northern tribe.">Ephraim</a>.  And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
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Then said the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/3a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB The remnant shall return; Isa. 8: 3, 18 (17-18).">Shear</a>-jashub thy son, at the end of the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/7/3b" mark="b" type="Q" title="HEB canal, or tunnel; Isa. 22: 11.">conduit</a> of the upper pool <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/7/3c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE by way of the launderers’ field near the stream below the pool of Siloam.">in</a> the highway of the fuller’s field;
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And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/4a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Don’t be alarmed by the attack; those two kings have little fire left.">for</a> the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
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Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
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Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB divide it up.">make</a> a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, <i>even</i> the son of Tabeal:
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Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
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For the head of Syria <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 17: 1 (1, 3).">Damascus</a>, and the head of Damascus <i>is</i> Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/7/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Joseph, People of; TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">Ephraim</a> be broken, that it be not a people.
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And the head of Ephraim <i>is</i> Samaria, and the head of Samaria <i>is</i> Remaliah’s son.  If ye will not <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Faith.">believe</a>, surely ye shall <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/7/9b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE If you lack faith, you will not be saved.">not</a> be established.
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&#182; Moreover the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
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Ask thee a sign of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
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But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/12a" mark="a" type="F" title="OR test, try; TG Test, Try, Prove.">tempt</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; <i>Is it</i> a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
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Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Signs.">sign</a>; <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/7/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 1: 23.">Behold</a>, a <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/7/14c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Birth of; TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about.">virgin</a> shall conceive, and bear a <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/7/14d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship.">son</a>, and shall call his name <sup>e</sup><a href="isa/7/14e" mark="e" type="R" title="HEB With us is God; TG Foreordination.">Immanuel</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR Curd and honey—the only foods available to the poor at times.">Butter</a> and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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For <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/16a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE before he is mature; Isa. 8: 4.">before</a> the child shall know to refuse the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/7/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Evil.">evil</a>, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
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&#182; The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/17a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The immediate danger is the threat of Assyria.">bring</a> upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/7/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Joseph, People of.">Ephraim</a> departed from <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/7/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Judah, People of.">Judah</a>; <i>even</i> the king of Assyria.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>that</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/18a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR whistle; i.e. signal, summon; Isa. 5: 26.">hiss</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/7/18b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE for attacking forces.">for</a> the fly that <i>is</i> in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that <i>is</i> in the land of Assyria.
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And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
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In the same day shall the Lord <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/20a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The land will be depopulated by a foreign invader.">shave</a> with a razor that is hired, <i>namely,</i> by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>that</i> a man shall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/21a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Only a few self-sustaining survivors shall remain.">nourish</a> a young cow, and two sheep;
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And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk <i>that</i> they shall give he shall eat butter: for <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/22a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB curd and honey; i.e. typical nomad staples.">butter</a> and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>that</i> every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/23a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR pieces of silver.">silverlings</a>, it shall <i>even</i> be for briers and thorns.
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With arrows and with bows shall <i>men</i> come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
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And <i>on</i> all hills that shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/7/25a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB hoed with the hoe.">digged</a> with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/7/25b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB sheep, or goats.">lesser</a> cattle.
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